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Sewing, laundry, dentist, carpentry, trains at Camp Westerbork

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.323.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2103 | Film ID: 2241

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    Sewing, laundry, dentist, carpentry, trains at Camp Westerbork

    Overview

    Description
    CU, wooden table covered with buttons. CU of man's and woman's hands covering buttons in leather, putting it through a press. 02:04:05 Pan of a large working hall with people sewing. Laundry room: MS of women in white overcoats putting white sheets through a press and folding sheets. Men pulling out clean laundry from large washing machines and separating them into tall wooden crates. Row of women behind table ironing. 02:06:38 MS, chemical lab. Men and women in white coats mixing chemicals. Shelves with bottles filled with chemicals. CU of man looking through microscope. 02:07:40 MS, sign on barrack: ZAHNSTATION-EINGANG UM DIE ECKE. Camp's dentist office: row of people in dentist's chairs are examined. Male dentists working with female nurses. Men and women getting wood planks from train wagon. Piles of boards. Small hand-pulled wagon filled with bricks. MS, carpenter shop. CU, cutting glass and inserting on greenhouse roof. CU, planting bulbs. 02:14:50 LS, moving train interiors, train passing by bare landscape and small farms, water canal (shot from engine room). Train approaching canal docks. 02:16:50 MS, small boat going down a canal. Larger steamboat in canal dock. Pan of group of men and women in dark uniforms unloading bricks from the steamboat. Men hammering with large wooden pool. Wagons filled with bricks pulling away from the boat and canal. WS, man sitting on top of brick pile, train steam. LS, train passing farms, farm animals. Hog farm, feeding chickens. Child playing with calf. MS, milking can, goats.
    Film Title
    Westerbork-film
    Duration
    00:25:09
    Date
    Event:  1944
    Production:  1944
    Locale
    Westerbork, Netherlands
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
    Contributor
    Producer: Albert K. Gemmeker
    Camera Operator: Rudolf Breslauer
    Biography
    Lagerkommandantur Westerbork
    Rudolf Breslauer (1903-1944) was a photographer and lithographer by trade, educated at the Academy for Art Photography in Germany. He was married to Bella Weihsmann and had three children: Stephan, Mischa, and Ursula. They fled Leipzig and settled in the Netherlands in 1938. In the summer of 1940, non-Dutch Jews were forced to leave Leiden because the city was near the sea. The Breslauers moved to a boarding house in Alphen aan de Rijn and left for Utrecht shortly thereafter. On February 11, 1942, they were sent to Westerbork, where Rudolf Breslauer was ordered to make passport photos of incoming camp prisoners and film daily life in Westerbork. In the spring of 1944, the camp commander commissioned Breslauer to make what would later be known as the Westerbork-film. In September 1944, Breslauer and his family were deported to Theresienstadt with other privileged prisoners and subsequently deported to Auschwitz in October 1944. Only Ursula survived the camp.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    02:02:00:00 to 02:27:09:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2241 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2241 Digital: J2K - HD
      Master 2241 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2241 Digital: J2K - HD
      Master 2241 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2241 Digital: J2K - HD
      Master 2241 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
      Master 2241 Digital: J2K - HD
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2241 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2241 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2241 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2241 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the archival segments on video from the Netherlands Audiovisual Archive [Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief] in The Hague, Netherlands, in February 1999.
    Note
    This film was commissioned by camp commander Konrad Gemmeker to convince the Gestapo headquarters of Westerbork's vital production value. The Jewish prisoner Werner (Rudolf) Breslauer documented activities at the transit camp with a 16mm film camera. Discovered after liberation, the footage contains some of the most famous and often reproduced images of deportation. The Westerbork-film was nominated for inclusion in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register of documentary heritage in 2017.
    Copied From
    16mm
    Film Source
    NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR BEELD EN GELUID
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 1594
    Source Archive Number: 2-1167 akte 3
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:03:43
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